1,664 Quotes by Jane Austen

Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day.

Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends - whether he may be equally capable of retaining them is less certain.

No tenía carácter para hacer frente a aquella especie de competencia en que nos hallábamos y a la preferencia que su padre me dispensaba a menudo" - Wickham. Orgullo y Prejuicio.

I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks.

La clase de aprobación que, según Elinor, despertaban en él los dibujos de otras personas estaba muy lejos del extasiado deleite que, en su opinión, era exclusivo merecedor de ser llamado gusto.

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.

Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him?

I have no talent for certainty.